Celestial Rose | Paradiso | Gustave Doré 1868

The Celestial Rose — Gustave Doré's illustration of Canto XXX of Dante's Paradiso (1868). The souls of the blessed arranged as petals of an infinite white rose opening in the Empyrean's divine light. The most sublime image in Doré's extraordinary Dante series, and one of the most beautiful visualizations of paradise in Western art. Catalog No. 9508.